Pat Rabbitte was correct to ask Fine Gael to cancel their press event highlighting their achievements in office on Thursday.

I would like to congratulate the Taoiseach on reaching his first year in office.

I can just picture it clearly in my head now leading up to the confirmed referendum: the billboards, vote yes to Jobs, money and stability.

In her staunch support for Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin as a politician of some substance, Terry Prone made claims regarding his ard fheis speech that simply do not stand up (Opinion, March 5).

In the absence of a further income stream austerity is the only alternative to debt restructuring.

With the Government desperate for novel ways of imposing further taxes they should look at introducing an NCT for supermarket trolleys.

Your distinguished correspondent Ryle Dwyer, whose father was killed in the Second World War, writes a typically well-informed and well-balanced piece on the question of the deserters and their treatment and that of their children on their return to Ireland in 1945.

In your excellent coverage of the recent comments by former deputy state pathologist Dr Gilsenan of a connection between anti-depressants and an increased risk of suicide, The College of Psychiatry of Ireland states “... there is no evidence anti-depressants can cause harm”.

If we are going to let Monsanto and others in to ruin all the natural food we have (that EU customers are crying out for), could we at least get them to do something useful to make up for it?

Eamon Ó Cuív has got it exactly right. We are not looking for a bail out or a dig out for the Anglo promissory loan; rather we are looking for what is fair and equitable.